Talk:Silicon bandgap temperature sensor

Needs a simple opening summary
This article as written is precisely the sort of example that chases non-technical people away from Wikipedia. I recall (and it's been a while) that the P-N junction has a fairly linear response of -2,1 mV per degree C with little effect from supply voltage. Diving into the mathematical formula to explain the effect just feels like being clever for the sake of it. If a young (but not mathematically gifted) person hits this page imagine what they would think? In many cases we don't need the "why" just the "does". I had this conversation with a lad I'm training recently. He was (as I when first hearing of it) utterly confused by Kirchoff's 1st law because the circuit examples and maths are overly complicated for what really is just the conservation of energy. The word circuit derives from circle after all - so view it as a loop where everything that goes in at the start comes back around is far simpler. So many other things in electronics are complex, that these most basic laws really should be kept to their bare minimum in summary to avoid scaring people off. Winfield Hill and Paul Horowitz managed this trick in The Art of Electronics, while still getting to the utter nitty-gritty of how things work. 81.97.100.208 (talk) 09:34, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * I think the rule "-2,1 mV per degree C" is only valid for constant currents. Here two different currents are compared in two seperate elements (T_1 and T_2), so this rule is not valid. 2A02:8071:5010:7860:3C5A:D367:6E04:AA68 (talk) 10:12, 1 March 2023 (UTC)